Turks & Caicos - Diving

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Southern Stingray. These were cruising along the sand with their entourage of fish looking for an easy meal.

Yellowtail Snapper. These are the puppy dogs of the ocean. They will often follow a diver the whole dive sometimes even circling the diver for no apparent reason.

Jenny.

This Nassau Grouper is at a cleaning station. Notice the two cleaner shrimp crawling on his body. They are looking for and eating parasites.

Azure Vase Sponge

 
This Barracuda is not bearing his teeth because he is mad. He is bearing his teeth to allow Cleaning Gobies ( a small fish ) into his mouth and gills to locate and eat parasites. ( One of my favorite photos of the trip )

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